The netherworld of limbo, long speculated in Roman Catholic teaching as the destination of babies who die unbaptized, has been replaced with the ''prayerful hope'' that they reach heaven. Pope Benedict XVI signed a theological report, years in the...

December 28, 2005, Wednesday

My husband and I just had a baby. He wants to have her baptized at the local Lutheran church even though we are agnostic and never attend church. My sister, a regular churchgoer, calls this hypocritical: baptizing our daughter includes a commitment...